Slade's armed guards, 2,500 or so, are all ready, too.
"Then, beside that, there are eight 'planes in the hangars, and plenty of men to take them up.

If you wish, sir, I can have others brought in.
The aerial-bomb guns are ready.

As for the oxygen supply, Tanks F and L are full, K is half filled, and N and Q each have about 6,000 gallons, making a total of--let's see, sir--a total of just about 755,000 gallons." "How protected?
Have you got those bomb-proof overhead nets on, yet ?" "Not yet, sir.

That is, not over all the lines of tanks.

We ran short of steel wire, last week, and have only got eight of the tanks under netting.